STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER TO DEFEND WAIVER OF PRELIMINARY HEA AND EXCLUSION OF TIME DER THE SPEEDY TRIAL ACT, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(b), FROM FEBRUARY 21, 2013 TO APRIL 11, 2013

MARIA-ELENA JAMES, Magistrate Judge.

With the agreement of the parties, and with the consent of the defendants, the Court enters this order scheduling an arraignment or preliminary hearing date of April 11, 2013 at 9:30a.m. before the duty magistrate judge, and documenting the defendants' waiver ofthe preliminary hearing date under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 5.1 and the exclusion of time under the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(b), from February 21, 2013 to April 11, 2013.

The parties agree, and the Court finds and holds, as follows:

1. The defendants have both been released from custody pursuant to conditions imposed by a court in the Eastern District of California.

2. The defendants agree to an exclusion oftime under the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(8)(B)(iv) to provide reasonable time necessary for effective preparation, taking into account the exercise of due diligence. The government is producing discovery in the case, and defense counsel needs time to review the discovery.

3. The defendants exclude the period from February 21, 2013 to April 11, 2013 for purposes of setting the preliminary hearing under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 5.1.

4. Counsel for the defendants believe that postponing the preliminary hearing is in their clients' best interest, and that it is not in their clients' interest for the United States to indict the case during the normal time period established in Rule 5.1.

5. The Court finds that, taking into the account the public interest in the prompt disposition of criminal cases, these grounds are good cause for extending the time limits for a preliminary hearing under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 5.1. Given these circumstances, the Court finds that the ends of justice served by excluding the period from February 21,2013 to April 11, 2013, outweigh the best interest of the public and the defendants in a speedy trial. 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(8)(A).

6. Accordingly, and with the consent ofthe defendants, the Court (1) sets a preliminary hearing date before the duty magistrate judge on April 11, 2013, at 9:30a.m., and (2) orders that the period from February 21, 2013 to April 11, 2013, be excluded from the time period for preliminary hearings under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 5.1 and from Speedy Trial Act calculations under 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(8)(A) & (B)(iv).

SO STIPULATED:

[PROPOSED] ORDER

For the reasons stated above, the Court sets an arraignment or preliminary hearing date of April 11, 2013 at 9:30 a.m. before the duty magistrate judge, and documenting the defendants' waiver ofthe preliminary hearing date under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 5.1 and the exclusion oftime under the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(b), from February 21,2013 to April 11, 2013. The Court finds that the exclusion of the time limits applicable under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 5.1 (c) from the date of this Order through April 11, 2013, is warranted; that exclusion of this period from the time limits applicable under 18 U.S.C. § 3161 is warranted; that the ends of justice served by the continuance outweigh the interests of the public and the defendants in the prompt disposition of this criminal case; and that the failure to grant the requested exclusion of time would deny counsel for the defendants and for the government the reasonable time necessary for effective preparation of counsel, taking into account the exercise of due diligence, and would result in a miscarriage of justice. 18 U.S.C. §3161(h)(7)(B)(iv).

IT IS SO ORDERED.